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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-9-2, Page 6WON . LOST. CHAPTER VOa "Yea mydear lleonerd,"" Lady:I`~efth "'nin a deprecatory tone, "It is very imprudent no dereally was inning doubt • but when you pec her you will not be surprised at Cynthla'e—at our imprudence. Saab a charming person, 80 thoroughly a young gentlewoman ; auoh a sweet manner, and Pugh a lovely tape—the loveliest I have ever peen, I really think, I was exoeediog y vp posed to it at firat, 'How do we hew 2 I said. to Cynthia. ' The eiroumatances are eo extraordinary V But you know Cynthia; she had her way," " As Cynthia generally does,„ says Leon- ard with a laugh. "Yee, as she often doge,” Lady Keith al- lowed, "And indeed, Leonard 1 believe she is quite rightin this instance."he set Leonard a shrugged hie shoulders s down hie tea -cap. He had just arrived ; and Lady Keith, who had her awn reasons for thinking a great deal of Linear(' Hope and his opinions, was taking the bull by the horns in preparing him tor a new and rather 'e And Leonard , e startling whim ofCynthia's. to 'n was seeing through Lady Keith—as indeed any one might de—and waa setting himself, according to human nature, against this fresh and much -praised protegee—a little by way of ocntradlatfon, and a good deal be- cause he really did disapprove of the "ex- traordinary ofrcumetanoes" as his aunt de- tailed them. She was living by herself, Lady Keith in- formed him, at Jeffoott'e lodgings, a young and beautiful girl without friends and willie- s history, as she confessed to Cynthia—a history which she oauld net reveal— Cyn- thia must take it on trust. She was very unhappy, Mrs. Jeffoott said, Drying herself ill and trying to get pupils, who were net to be had at Penmawr. She had lost her dreseing case containing her money, en the journey—she admitted she was terribly em- barrassed in consequence of the less. Mrs. Jaffcott pronounced her " as quiet and aaweet a young lady as ever Dame into a haute," Cynthia met her in the village, after their return from St. Serbaetlan'a, was struck with her, went to cali upon her, and gradually won her .confidence—at least, ae much of it as she could give—and, wanting a companion, offered her the pest. She would only accept it after telling Cynthia frankly that—she had a history in fact, And Cynthia had been erre that the history meant misfortune and net discredit for Mies Diad ten, But Leonard Rope was not se sure. As a man ef the world he was bound te be dis- trustful ef beautiful atray young women 'with histories, And he was bound besides to stand between "Donna Quixotina" and her moat dangerous ehemp?onships. For he was what the law terms her "next friend," her nearest male relative, ha heir should she die unmarried or without children ; and, young as he was for such a trust, her father had appointed him guardian of the yonug heiress, now just approaching her majority. In this appointment, as Leonard knew, was implied en arrangement which grew so na- turally out of all the rest that it seemed to suggest itself—an arrangement which would unite two fortunes, would restore a lapsed title, and secure the young heiress against greedy fortune-hunters. As he stood at hie dressing -room window struggling with the impatient annoyance Lady Keith's conversation had exulted, Leonard began to think whether it would net be better that Cynthia's wings, which carried her"en auoh doubtful flights, ehonld be clipped a little. She was only a woman —a good, brave woman, he knew, but still only a woman ; and, like all women, she needed an authority in her life. For want of it—aa, meek, yielding Lady Keith did not count—the irresponsible girl, with her generous impulsive nature. waa continually getting into scrapes, from whioh Leonard was as constantly being summoned to rescue her. Her screoningof poachers and gipafes, her patronage of doubtful fereignere, her attempts to redress dubious or impossible wrongs, were beginning to earn her a repu- tation as to whioh her future husband was becoming sensitive. Yet he was not sure that he was ready to submit his awn wings to the clipping process. Matrimony, when he began to look it closely in the faoe, was a little formidable. He was not sure that he was prepared yet to make that indefinite future an irrevocable settled prevent. He had come te Panmawr, according to hie an- nual custom, in October, to knock the phea- sants and partridges about a little; he was hardly prepared for a more serious occupa- tion. Bat wlth this new freak of Cynthia's he was very much annoyed. How was be to bear himself himself tewarde this woman, the meet difficult of all embarrassmonte to deal with—a young woman, a pretty wo- man ? In the meantime he was very angry with this interloper. At that moment he saw the gleam of light garments beneath the trees of the avenue, and presently two figures emerged from the shade and oame out into the open. One of them was Cynthia's; Leonard recog- nized the free, firm step, the erect poise et the head. The ether figure—shorter, slight- er, moving with a quiet grace whioh the young man detected even at that dietanoe —must be that ef Cynthia's protege, Leonard watched the pair as they came nearer and nearer—so near now that Cyn- thia, catching sight of him at the window, waved her hand and nodded a smiling wel- come, whilst her companion looked up wen- deringly frem under the shadow ef a wide - brimmed black hat, with softly -nestling plumes, whioh seemed to Leonard to set off a marvellously fair complexion. But the face was turned away quickly—shyly he would have said, had It been any ether but a girl in " extraordinary circumstances"— and the clustering plumes drooped, and Leonard eaw ne mere, But that one glance had flashed across him like a bewildering memory, like the faint eoho of forgotten music, like the breath of perfume recalling momentarily some dim sweet aaeodiatien. He held his breath as he leaned forward eagerly from the open window, as watching the two girls passing the entrance' to the house and disappearing amongst the shady walks of Cynthia's own garden. " Many visitors In toe house, James? he inquired oarelesely of hie servant, who ap- peared at the sound of the dresaing bell, " No. Sir ; the house is neer'y empty. Sir George is here, and Captain Allen — net come in from shooting. And ono lady, sir," "Lady Vivian, I suppose ?" Me Hope library. Afire waa.barniug here—forfthe October evenings were o4,illy amongst the Welch h£lle—and a, ;reading lamp lighted a table furnished with the day's papers, oto. Yet, in spite of fire and lamp, the, large room, with its hoover book•ahelvee, its oom, bre ptoturee, and cumbrous antique- £urn#; Lure, gathered rhadewe which adued.a my - f sterieue gloom comfort, to its appearance of m o And Leonard, going forward to the English- man's fametito poet -the hearthrug—nearly stumbled over a yonug lady who was lying back in the depths of a big arm chair, just in the shadow of a high screen. She eat np and bowed in acknowledgment of Leonard's apologies, and eo brought her- eelf out of the shadow, and into the full' blaze of the firelight. And again that be- wildering, hauuting sense of something fam- filar, yet vague end misty, floated past Leonard Hope, eluding him as he tried to grasp it, The girl was in her fret youth and of exquisite beauty, with golden hair drawn back simply from her forehead and knotted eimply at the book of her head, She looked up at him with large frightened eyes, the lashes and delioately.pencilled browe many shades darker than the bean- o'f ul fair hair. There was such a halo of purity and innocence surrounding g her bean- ty that she reminded .him involuntarily of some pictured saint that he had seen in a Raphael or a Corregglo group. Could this be the person to whom he had applied all these unpleaeaut adjectives an hour or two ago ! He was very much ashamed and very remoraeful before the unconscious objeot of hie late invective, He was on his knees— metaphorically—before her, and therefore in a dangerous condition of mind, She stood up, tall, and fair as a lily, the faintest pink flash, like the dainty heart of a pale blush -rose, dawning on her cheek. Something in her attitude, in the timid anx- ious gaze fixed on him, In the trembling clasp of her dropped hands *bowing so white against the soft clinging folds of her black dress—seemed to appeal to Leonard against bin harsh unspoken j adgment of her ; and the young man was convicted in his heart of cruel, unmanly snepioion and oppression of this defenceless young creature. If she had been a plain middle-aged woman with red hair and a snub nose, perhaps he would not so quickly have reversed hie verdict and ao- oopted the story he had se distrusted from Lady Keith's lips. " I beg your pardon.. I am afraid I start- led yen." " Me ? Oh, no 1 I ought to have heard you. I believe I was dreaming." " And you thought that year friend, Mles—Mlsa=l' forget bername," " Mies Doveton, ocaoin, Albiata," ' Ah, yea ; ¥ise Daveton 1 O ae et the Northehire Devetone..I auppoee. A grand- daughter of old Sir Charles, eh? And yet I thought I know 141 that generation, Who did yon may your friend waw, Cynthia?" By these questtone, Cynthia knew that Ltdy Saltmarsh had detected the`dirootfon in which the glances of the oaoalier who eaglet to have amused her wandered, and that oho meentto be eptteful. CHAPrER VITI, Lady her room, S iltmarah had retired to the Rector had said "good.night," Sir George and Captain Allen were awaking the pipe of peace In the smoking -room, while Lady Keith, Cynthia, Mies Daveton, and Leonard Hope were gathered round the drawing -room fire, enjoying a ohat whioh the presence of the ether guests bad post- poned, "By -the -way, Cynthia," Leonard said oarelesely, I met some people at Holten to whom you are interested," "Really .the 2 '' 1 Who are Y „ two daughters," Mrs. Dal mains andp Mr, a $ Leonard answered. " Dan't knew them in the least," Cynthia pretested. " I never heard the name be - ore positively, "Have yen forgotten the wedding we witnoesed at St, Ssbaetian'e 2" "No—oh, no l That dreadful wedding I That poor bride !" "Mrs, Delamaine is the mother of the young lady; I mentioned that I had been a spectator of the ceremony, and I enquired after the happy p dr. They are abroad, and you will be glad to hear—I have It en the mother's authority—that they are ' very happy'—in foot ' too much 000ulled with their happineee to write much or report themselves to their Meads at home,' " " Dear me, how nice !" Lady Keith said. "So, Cynthia, you were mistaken after all" " That Is it I" Cynthia exolatmed abrupt- ly. " The likeness 1 How it bas torment- ed me I Leonard, ie not Miss Daveton the Doveton the image of the bride when she is pale 2" Miss Doveton was pale enough at that moment. She wasetandtng with her face turned towards the mantlepieoe, holding a Chinese fire screen between herself and the fire, and when impetuous Cynthia grasped her hands and dropped the screen upon the hearthrug, turning the pallid features to- wards the light, Lady Keith exolatmed— "Oh, my dear, yon are ill—you are faint! The roam le too warm, and she has been standing toe oleeely over the fire, Open the door, Leonard—eit down here on the oouoh, Miss Doveten. Cynthia, ring for Julie Where are my salts 2 My dear, let mo fan you." " It la nothing," Mies Daveton stammer- ed with white lips, as Cynthia stood ever her dismayed. " I will go to my roam now. Please de not Dame. Indeed it is ever." She pearled Leonard Hepe with a bow, and without locking up at him, ant' disap- peared with Julie in attendance. "Have you walked too far to -day V' Lady Keith asked her daughter. "Mies Dove - ten Is not at strong as yon are, Cynthia. You must not tempt her to overtax her strength." "I think she is strong," Cynthia ans- wered, "but she is nervous. Something up• set her before dinner. Did you not say yen startled her in the library, Leonard ? I no- ticed that she was not looking like herself when I found yen there." " Yee," eaid Leonard, absently. " We will send for Doctor Marwood in the morning, and he shall give her a tonic. Poor child—no doubt she has suffered a great deal, and it is telling upen her nerves and health ! We must take oars of her, Cynthia," Lardy Keith raid, " The forma of the dopa•fed Batmen at the open door." Isn't that what Longfellow leads u te ex- pect at this time and under these drum - stances ?" The startled leek was going from her eyes now; and unleea the "fitful, firelight shadows" played fanciful pranks, soft dimp- les chewed themselves about her rounded chin, as if she smiled. How tantalizing this wavering light was 1 It was this Doming and going, this elfin play ef the ehadewe, whioh confused him with that mysterious haunting memory again. '. I wish my conein would Deme," he salt stirring the fire into a blaze. " I believe I have the pleasure of speaking to Mies Dave - ton ; but until Cynthia introduces me—" " Leonard, are you here ? I have been hunting for yen," spoke Cynthia's • voice at the door. " I kne* yen had arrived ; and mamma gave a good report of you. My oonain, Mr. Leonard Hope; my friend, Mier Deveton, Perhaps, though you have already been made acquainted with each ether I" " Not unless frightening a lady a good deal is a mode of making acquaintanoe, Leonard answered. "I oame is here look- ing for you, Cynthia, remembering your habits, and I found Miss Deveton alone and disturbed her dreams. That subdued light and all theme aooeeeerles are really too ghastly I Bartlett has an eye -far dramatic effect." "It is my effect, not Bartlett's," .sale Cynthia, drawing Miss Deveton Into her chair again and kneeling down herself on the tiger -akin rug In frent of the fire. "• This may half-light is just what I like— the pleasantest half-hour in the whole day. Tell me your news, Leonard. Where do yen come from ? What have you been do- ing since we last met ?" "I Deme last from Holton." " From Helton!" Cynthia's hand was en Mies Daveton'* arm. "My dear Edith," she interrupted, "are you oc13 I Yen are positively shivering 1" " It Ie—the ghostly atmosphere," Mies Deveton answered, trying to speak lightly, Bat it seemed te Leonard that her voice trembled, Had he really startled her so much 2" "Whom did yon meet at Helton? Were the Anuesley's in great force V' Cynthia was beginning, when the dinnergong boomed out. " Come to the drawing -room I" the exclaimed, starting up and leading the way. " If there is one thing I pride myself on, it is my punotuelity. And the Rentor meat have arrived five minutes ago. I wanted to ask him about--" She stopped, with a ooneoiene look at her cousin. " About the model Bill Sykes," Leonard laughed, "By -the -way, is he ant of prison yet I" Bat Cynthia swept en without deigning answer, and Mies Doveton followed; and, fn the marshalling of the party for the dining - room, Leonard lost eight of her. Presently he found her again—when the little flutter of eettling round the dinner -table had sub- sided—halfway down the gleaming waate ef silver and fiowere and lights; seated be- tween the Renter and Captain Allen. Sir George Vivian's place was opposite to here, on the other side of the spreading gardenia. "Ie it high art, er le it genuine unstudied eimpilolty ?' the Baronet asked himself, glanoing ever between the large wine -red leaves at the marvelleneoomplexion of pearl and rose -leaves and the simple girlfh toilet of black grenadine, relieved by nothing more costly than the oft Hese frills at the throat and wrfate. "Awfully pretty, any- how 1" ny-howl" Cynthia, who was en Leonard's lefthand, thought her oenatn strangely doll and ab- sorbed, and wars rather disappointed, but oonaluded he was tired ; and old Lady Saltmarsh, to the plane of honour at his right, who liked to talk and wanted to be listened to, resented the dulneae of` her neighbor. Neither of them guested that he was occupied in that mosttantalising men- tal exeroiro—purautng .a fugitive reminis- oence whloheluded and harassed him all the time, Captain Allen, a hearty honest sailor, with a sailor's eye for beauty, admired his fair neighbor o ooedingly, and devoted Mak. self to her. a000rdingly ; and Leonard saw the shy dimples appear again and the violet eyes sparkle merrily, And Sir George, leaning over, joined in the Captain's lively rattle of talk; to win his share of the beauty's smiles, whilst Lady Keith, sitting benignly by, enjoyed the eMler'is merry sallies, "Dear me, ail the fun seems to be at that end of the table 1" old Lady Saltmarsh re. marked, looking envlonely over her fan et the group wile Teemed to be enjjoyin . them• delve%, "quite a pretty girl, �ynthla, said, remembering that Sir George had married a young wife only a few months before. And with the remembrance came just a llttle'fieeting shade of dieappeintmen*. " No, sir, Sir George is here alone, It le an elderly lady—e wean of Lady Keith's I bohemia" "Oh l" Then the plumed hat and the fair face belonged to Cynthia's new com- Hope did not t Ail her "a panien �Leonnard � woman now. The drawing room was empty When he went downstairs, and he pawed en to the "Therelea. woes° danger, Sir George"— 1.:IOUBE1-1OLD. ominously, " Poor impnldve Cynthia; her friend* ought to rally retina her 1" t"—what--•-" Sir George looked Household Hints, � by � puzzled, Never eery° potatoes boiled er 'baked Captain Alien ie a younger aon, with whole !n a closely oavered dish, They be only a commander's poor pay, as everybody dome sodden and clammy, Cover with a knews," Lady Saltmarsh expialued. There folded napkin Haat allows the steam~ to em., is better game here --for an adventuress— cape or absorbs the moisture, than. George Alien !' •p " Bat game whioh is already netted,' Many people object to hard boiled eggs Sir George acid lightly, "Mier Keith beoaue° they are dim:ult to digest, but if comas of age in the spring, I hear, Aad they will boil them cue hour; they will find then 1. sappoao she will give a master to them light, mealy, and digestible, Perhaps Pentygarth. That"—with a glanoo over at even r better way Is to put them en In old Leonard a figura, hal# shrouded behind the curtains of the window near whlou J. R, 0. fella of this way of cutting glass ;, 0 ntbie eat—" that is prettywell under- Saturate n woolen string with ell and Lev it stood, I suppoes,' en the glace where you wish to out it, File "Yea; it world baa sad pity if snob a a notoh at enoh side to hold it in place, tarn very delightful arrangement should be die - set fire to the airing, but be careful not to turbed,' Lady Seltmereh said, pursing up break It too soon, her thin llpe as if they held in a secret A "Well•Wisher" earn : If your readers knowledge that it would be disturbed. have trouble with people striking matches " Why should it be disturbed?" Sir on their paint and spoiling it, saturate a George asked aloud. To himself he said piece of flannel with vanolin° and rub the disreepeotfully, " What en earth le the old spot well, and after that they may strike woman driving at i"� tnelr matohee as mach ae they like, they ", the alai, will e e light or in' aro h Sir —Lad it marsheh eek not to h A George"—Lady a S tP 6 J y g her hoed until the marabout feathers o her Teakettles or other tinware which have e turban nodded threateningly—" yon are all become blackened and dell from long nee blind, you men ! It is the old story of be- shenld be scoured with ooal ashes from ing blinded by a pretty face and a oft, in- whioh every bit of coal and coarse aches neoent•eeeming manner. Bat I am not has been sifted. Webb after in a good hot blind, and, mark my words, there will be soapeads and wipe dry, Do not repeat the mischief. I have seen--" her lips closed scouring often, but wash frequently in clean on the rest, hot suds, with a glean soft oloth, and they "Oh, come, Lady Siltmarab," pretested will keep bright fora good length of Sir George etoutly, "yon are mletaken, up- time. on my honeur !' If you are going away for a summer "Yon will nee"—and Lady Saltmarsh trip, and wish to oarry Alen a aloe dress, looked "unspoken volumes." "For my a good plan le to fold it oaretulte and pack part, I ellen adviee Dorothy Keith to die- It in a box before putting it In your trunk pose of the young person as speedily as pee- or valise, and it will net be oraahed by the elble, or to hurry on the marriage. Saab other clothing, as It would inevitably be if oataetrophes have happened before is fa• made after the prevailing style of draping miller." and packed with the ether clothing. Dell - Then Lady Keith Dame np, and Sir nate ruching, eto., may be pat in with it. George moved away. The light pasteboard bozos enoh as tailere "Spiteful old hag ! he said as he went, send home suite in are best. Then he sauntered• into the muemo-room, The sprinkling of a little water over the and devoted himeslf for the rest of the surface of a flower bed or about a tree or evening to "the young person"—devoted shrub under the pretense of watering it la himself ooneplonenely, under Ledy Salt- labor loot, and sometimes worse than that ; march's very eves. a,daily wetting of the surface may bring "Sir George,' Cynthia appealed to him, the roots up when they ought to go dawn, as they were bidding each other good night, and thus de misohlef, 0ely water planta "Are the red deer dangereua ! Leonard once to ten days or so, and then do it well, says there are esmplainte; they are only Draw the earth away, making a deep hole just arrived from the Highlands, and aro a in the ground ; pour this fall of water, and little wild. Bat surely you would not con• repeat the dose after the first bucketful' has eider them dangerous 2•' soaked away. Then draw bank the dry " Oh, no 1 I have them in my own park. earth, They tame dawn after a while. An old woman or two may be soared in the mean• time, but nothing worse. And you have plenty of room for the deer." • • * • * • • The next day Sir George and Leonard were crossing a corner of the park, making a short oat from one stubble field to another. Sir George stopped as they passed along the brow of a precipitous hill and painted to the think belt of trees below, " Timber wants thinning dawn there," he remarked. " Women are conservative in trees as in ether things. I suppose yen'lI open up the view in that direction by-and- by, Hope. 2" "Yes," Leonard assented gntetly ; and Sir George oengrataled himself that his leading question had been 'answered. They stood looking dawn ever the wooded elopes and the distant avenue—the finest in the country—and at the gray walls of the Cattle, showing above the cresta of the tall trees beyond. • * * * • • Snob geed care was taken of Mine Dave - ton that she rallied wonderfully. Delicate pink roses bloomed in her rounded oheeke ; and her violet eyes gained a lustre whioh quite reasenred Lady Keith, and j notified Cynthia's cnthaiaatlo admiration, " I thought yea would have admired my beautiful friend more," she said once to Leonard. " It is just the coloring and the poetical cast of beauty yon have always idealized. " Yes, she is beautiful," Leonard con. ceded, with no parttoular enthusiasm, it seemed to his cousin, "Well !' said disappointed Cynthia; gen- erous in her friendships as In everything elee, "But you have been very good, and I ought to be content. I expeoted a eoeld- ing, in year rapacity of guardian, and I am glad to be let off. Your forbearance is an admteelon, at all events." " Perhaps ; but don't do it again," Leon- ard admonished ; and having se far die - charged hie duty, he turned to the papers before him—for this was a business " alt - ting." "I like all my friends to like each other oerdielly," Cynthia resumed presently, in the midst ef an inspection of leases. " I fanny your friends are dutifully at- tentfve to year wishes In that respeot," Leonard remarked, glancing ent et the win- dow towards where echoes of pleasant voices and silvery peals of laughter oame floating up from the green arcades of Cyn- thia's garden. "Yea," Cynthia aoquieeoed. "Poor Captain Allen—he is no lukewarm admirer, at all events 1 I like a whole -hearted par- tisan, er none," " Perham! none Is safer," Leonard replied gravely, annotating a deed. • "Safer for Captain Allen—yes," Cyn- thia admitted. And then the fencing dropped ; and Cyn. this felt discontentedly that she had hardly advanced her friend's cause with this other friend, when seal of approval somehow was neoeasery to Cynthia's comfort in all her undertakings, ' "Allen Is hard hit," Sir George remark- ed that same evening to Lady Saltmarsh, indicating the gallant sailor, as hehavered about the blaok-robed figure seated at the plane, and visible through the open door of the music ream ; " and, upon my word, I don't blame him. She's awfully pretty andnice, and good form too, and all the rest of it. But who the dickens is she 2" "My dear Sit George, that le exactly what I want to know," Ludy Salt/naval re- joined, sitting up briskly to discuss the sub- ject, There enema' to be a 'Bort of mystery about her, She is not one of the North- shire Davetena-1 have ascertained that. My maid tolls me she was living in country lodginge, alone"—L'ady Saltmarsh placed great emphasis on the word-" when Cyn- thia picked her up and brought her here— really, you know, Sir George, a dangerous introduction—a most dangerous lntredao- tien l ButDor Lady Keith le so blindly indulgent to Cynthia's whims, Wait think, it may be an adventureea, or worse, whom Cynthia harslet loose atnonget her friends -- amongst people of family, Sir George 1" Oh, Allen can take oare of himself ; let him alone I" laughed Bir George. Don't spoil sport, "lady Seitrsh ; it Isn't fair 1" " Its not Camaptain Allen," Tatty Salt, marsh corrected oaatiouely, behind her fain d whet h "It's a fine place," Sir George was com- mencing, when Leonard suddenly snatched hie gun from the keeper, and threw himself headlong down the deoent, followed by his doge. " What the dickens le up new 2" cried Sir George wonderingly, looking after him In his mad deficient, without however, any inolination te follow him. " Is it a wood- cock or a whale, keeper?" " No, Sir George," the man answered— he was craning his neck ever the edge of the rack—" ft's the red deer." " The red deer ? What, another old wo- man knocked down? Is there any ether way down, P;ioe, than thle break-neok ladder of rook 2 "Yes, Sir George; round by the Long Walk." " A long way round 1" " Yes, sir." " Weil, then, we may as well go en,", said Sir George resignedly. " The fun would be ever before we could get there, And Hepe le respeneible for the old wemen en the plane -I'm not," he muttered, as he walked on towards the mond stubble -field. "Although, if I had my will, 1'd set that- eoandai-mongering old Lady Saltmarsh be- fore the biggest pair of antlers . amongst them, and let her run for her life. It might quiet her tongue, at least. There's Hope's gun 1" He stopped a moment. " What has he shot, I wonder 1 Net the red deer, surely !' Jaat then oame a " whit" from a whole covey of brawn wings, rising temptingly within range ; and Sir George, forgetful of hie oarfoelty, " blazed away" for the next half-hour, with no ether thought than of the bag he was filling. In the meantime Leonard Hope had caught a glimpse, jest below him, of a blank plumed hat and a gray oloak pursued by one of the red deer Sir George had pronounced harmless. The animal, wild and intraot- able already, had been irritated by a little terrier dog welch a000mpanied Miss Dave ton in her walk, and she had caught up the little creature in her arms, whence he con. tinned to harass hie foe, and- she had fled towards the boat -house for shelter from the danger, Leonard appeared just in time. At the report of bis gun, tired in the air, the wild animal turned and fled in the op- posite direction, and Leonard, following the young lady to her retreat, found her faint and breathless, leaning against the wall, jut within the door. It was bard upon him. For many days he had been trying to forget Miss Deveten'e existence -as far as he could, spending every evening in her society, He had even contemplated making arrangements for hav- ing himself suddenly aammoned away from Peninawr, leaving the oastle—in the shoot. Ing lesson too—without a host, And here he was, forced, by the oommoneet laws of humanity and by all his traditions of chive airy, into the danger he had striven to old -Into ,the worst possible phare of the av danger, He feud himself in the position of defender and preteoter to a beautiful wo- man ; o -man; and hie ease might be a bad one unlet* he possessed a safeguard. But was hie safeguard strong enough to boar the test? It was a question he dared net try to an- swer* as the little arembling hands clung to hie arm, and the flattering heart beat so close to hie on the homeward walk, rOBEIQN 1;0110E11. The season for meet S wipe landlords has been a very poor eine, it II reported, and et times the heat has been almost unparalleled for the Alpe, Advices from Tion-Tein pay that great excitement preveila there ever the report. that the island of Lezareff, in the Parade Ocean, hail been occupied by Russia, The number of Insane in the Asylums of St. Petereburg has more than uoubled with- in the last ten "veers, There has been it still greater Increase of suicides throughout the country. The skeleton of Bishop Courtenay, Ed- ward IV.'s Lord Seal, has been dusoovered in a °cilia built up in masenredin- the crypt of Winchester Cathedral. Courtenay, it will be remembered, was at Bosworth, and is mentioned by Shakespeare in " Mallard III," Mme, Patti has raised $7,500 by two con- certo far the Swansea General Heepital, and rhe will give a third concert for the same purpose en Thureday evening of next week. At the o oio of the entertainment Sir Huaaey Vivian will preeen to her the find painting; of herself by Jami rSant, R, p K o dem ant the Revd a exhibited 8, newy_ A., The following le a onmmary%of Mr. Glad- e+tone's expenses, as iemued by the Sheriff of Midlothian :-1, Returning•effioer's ex- pellees £7 lla ; 2, personal expenses, £29 I0a ; 3, election agent, £63 ; 4, clerks, £18 10e ; 5, printing, advertising, etetionary, postege, and telegrams, £20 5i 51; 9, meeting and committee rooms, £31 14s 6d ; 7, mleoelleneoue, £20 12i 2d. Tetal, £191 gild. Even poor old Emperor Dona Pedro lest his mental equilibai rm in the delirium of general rejoloing over Bernhardt In Rio Janeiro, and gent for Sarah and presented her with a costly bracelet set in brilliants. The series of !tonere was crowned by a high society journal; the nathotio Semina. Issu- ing a special edition containing i;arah'e prelims, printed on silk and inclosed in rich covers of plush. Choioe Recipes. PICKLED GREEN TOMATOES AND ONIONS. —Cupp one peok of green tomatoes end half a peck of onions. Lit them stand two days in layers of salt. Bring just enough vinegar to cover them to the bolltng paint. Put in the vegetables mixed with one eunoe cloves, one ounoa allspice, two euneea white mustard seed, five large red poppers shredded. When well scalded put in jars. TOMATO OATcaur.—Take one gallon of skinned tomatuos, four tablespoonfuls all- eptoe, three tablespoonfuls mustard, eight node red pepper. Simmer slowly In enough aharp vinegar to cover the tomatoes, for three or four hours, and then rab through a sieve and bottle closely. It may be need in two weeks, but improves by keeping. If the flavor of onions is liked, an onion may be boiled with the rest, or two teblespeon- fnle ef garlic juice added when the catchup has cooled a Tittle. CUCDMBEs SALAD.—Be careful to get only firm, trash renoumbers, and not those that are at all wilted ; ohooeo small ouonmbers rather than large ones, as the latter are apt to be flibby and seedy. Lay en ice until ready to use them ;' then wash, pare, and slice as thin as possible ; sprinkle salt over them plentifully and let them stand for half an hour; then• press or drain all the water from them and mix with the dresaing as for bean salad. Prepared in this way the cucumbers are not as crisp as when the water is not drained tram them, bat they are a great deal mere wholesome. W a have no fear or dread of eating cucumbers is our family, as no one has ever been af- flicted bypartaking of them when prepared es described. (T0 •BE CONTINUED,) s eeeiaiewm-w Clara (Bobby's big sister)—" I heard father call you a little while ago, Bobby." Bobby—" Did he any Robert or Bobby t" Oiara—" He said Robert."Bobby—(with a Merlons look In his eye)—" Then 1 gnaw I hod better pee w a he 'ante," The Queen -Regent of Spain le spending the season at Le Granja. Every morning Her Majesty goes out with the children, very simply attired, and unattended by any suite. She may be frequently seen sitting en a bench in the palace grounds with the infant King is her lap and the two little princessue playing on the grass around her. After dinner Her Maj arty gives an audience to Senor Martinez on affairs of the State, and at 6 in the evening rhe takes an hour's drive aleng,the Beleaia road. Mr, Lebonobere writes :—Landlorda have said to me : " My land costs me more than it produces," My reply baa always been: ""Then give it to me." Thie they invariably refuse to do, whioh proves that either their land has a valve or they are silly enough to hold property whioh la owned at a lose. Why should we waste our pity on people who have a saleable article and who refuse to sell it ? " But we cermet sell," they reply, ThThinhowever, only means that they cannot sell the artiole for more than its real value. Of course they cannot, Ne more can any one else. A girl was taken before the Paris tribunal oharged with stealing a blanket., She plead- ed that she was under the infl enoe ef an- other preen and could mot fast, herself. In prison it was found in an hypnotized condi- tion, and anted readily under the commands of ethers, doing anything that was told her. She was examined by a commieaien of Cher- oot, Brenardel and Mollet, who reported that this state name from the use of morphia, suffering and hunger, and that these sugges- tions frem from oehere, acting on an unata- ble nervone organism greatly deranged by morphia and other causes, rendered her ir- responsible for her note, She was acgnited. BREVI rIEs. Cattle ranges In Montana are reported over-orewded, Onions from Egypt are being sold in the streets of Boston. "„'Some Boston girls languidly proclaim themselves Buddhiets. 44 Ali the world's a stage," but the fare ens net suit every body. If you have means live within them ; if you have not, live without them, A New York philanthropist has eatabllah- ed a co operative farm for tramps. If you scorch clothes in Ironing, place them in the sun to draw the mark out. There is a church to every 1,250 inhab- itants of Olnolnnati and a anloon to every 100, . When milliliters begin to make denem- inetional flops they never know when to stop, The wart on the nese, whioh a quack called eerioua, drove a Shasta (0al,) man to puioide. The Peal&o Coast protium annually 1,500,000 came of canned goods, valued at $4,510,000. ' It to proposed to use the American geld dollar as the basis of monetary transactions in Peru. It is said that in all Jepen, out of a pop• elation of 37,000,000 there are -leas than 10,000 paupers, -Every great and commanding movement Intheannals of the world is the product of enthusiasm, Half a million wild duke are' annually killed in Southern Louisiana and sent to the New Oaeane market. Elihu Burritt, " the learned blacksmith," knew all the languages of Europe and most of those of Asia, A merchant of Wallingford, Vt., recently reduced to ashes a book that had $10,000 of bad accounts on its pages. Shillalahs, they say. are never peen in the hands of Irlehmen in Ireland no 7v, 15 10 the tourist who 'swinge the stiok, A California editor gratefully aoknow- ledges the reoeipt of an invitation from'a enbaoriber to vielt his house and take a bath. There were fourteen daily papers publish- ed in New York City to 1845, of whioh eight are still in existence, There'are now thirty dalliee D that olty, ton of them ,printed•in foreign languages. Carried to the Bottom o'the Sea. A curlew adventure, at l as a marvel- lous escape. was that of Mr. Gerald Mo- Carthy of Washington, who was recently carried to the bottom of the Atlantic in the hold of a capsized vestal. Mr. Mi.Carthy, who le a member of the senior oleos at the Deaf Mute College at Kendal Green, and who has already attained a considerable reputation and standing as a botanist, has been oolleoting plants during the summer variation on the pine barrens and banks of North Carolina, Wishing to visit Roanoke Island in order to oarry on his work there, he recently took passage in a schooner thither bound. The schooner, a email vessel In the service of a plonio party from Roanoke, was to have sailed homeward at 7 o'clock in the evening, but it was 11 before the crew oame on board, when they appeared to be highly intoxicated, They set sail in the teeth of a Hatteras storm, and when well out from land they began to quarrel ever the contents of a jag they had_ brought with them. Meanwhile the vessel was struck by a gust from -the oape, and, from want of proper management, capsized completely, and sank to the bottom when about two miles off the oast, It was about midnight, and the cabin having been given up to the gay party, Mr, McCarthy had gene down into the hold for shelter. He was dozing there on a box, and, being deaf, was not aware of any disaster until he sud- denly found himself pitched headlong to the opposite' side of the hold, Instantly compre- hending the situation, he jumped for the hatchway and succeeded in grasping the easing, but was torn away by the inrnehing torrent and; carried to the depth of the hold, where he was banged againet the pido'ef the vessel with auoh force as to nearly dislocate his shoulder. Thanks tg his familiarity with water, be- ing a fellow of temperance principles and an export swimmer, he realized the futility of attempting to escape before the stoppage of the ourrent, and, so remaining quiet where he bad been dashed, he carefully, husbanded the little airin his lungs until he fudged the inrush of water had ceased. NA', Shia time he was nearly strangled, buWwith no little • presenoe.of mind he groped hie way to the hatchway, and, diving through, rose to the surface none toe soon to catch the air, Many of the party were drowned. After swim- ming about and clinging to the wreckage for a half honr, he was picked up in a email beat and taken to Roanoke Island, where he was hospitably entertained, Doubbful•looking Guest—" Landlord, have you a lire -escape in this hotel 1" Experienced Landlord—•" Yep, sir, but we generally keep the bulldog chained ab the bottom of it. , , Why:He Hated Him. "0 Charles,let um turn and go off some other wa thre is that bad, man follow- ing n'e," Y '' Who to the fellow, my deah 2" "Why, that Is the man who was eo near marry"Yingu2" me before"I met you. I just hate o" B Jove, so do 1." ""Yeas." "t'You don't knew him, How can you hate him t'' " He didn't marry you, don't ger knew, my dove," . ----- Miss Genevieve Ward performed the part of 'the Queen In LedyAaehibald Campbell's open-air representation of "Becket," is